Dr. Riva Symko is Head of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Canadian Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She also teaches art history courses at both the University of Winnipeg, and the University of Manitoba. Her primary areas of exhibition development and research include twentieth and twenty-first century art, Canadian art, art and climate change, copyright law and the doctrines of fair use/fair dealing, as well as critical and cultural theory including feminist theory, theories of authenticity and originality, historiography, and decolonization pedagogy and methodology.